[ale] What's so special about gmail invites?

[vernard at cc.gatech.edu (Vernard Martin)]

Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
> see $subject, just curious I guess,
> Thanks,

Currently, the only way to get a gmail account is to get an invite from 
someone that already has a gmail acct and has invites available. the 
reason you want a gmail acct now is so you can get the email address 
that you want versus having to settle for something else. The reason you 
want gmail versus some other system is that it gives you the largest 
email quota availble on a free email system, it runs on a very fast 
hardware platform and it uses a nice easy-to-use interface that means 
you never have to delete email and yet still can sift through it in a 
fairly reasonable and fast manner.

Vernard